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Let's get a little bit poetic today!

हरति इति हरिः  (harati iti hariH)  He who takes away is Hari.

हरति इति हरः (harati iti haraH) He who takes away is Hara.

Technically there is no difference between the word Hari and Hara.
Hari(Vishnu) and Hara(Shiva).

Now, so what do Vishnu and Shiva take away from us?
Well, this is up to us to decide how we want to fill in the blanks.

Hari and Hara can take away our ignorance and sins.
Hari and Hara can also take our heart and mind away in a captivating manner ever so beautifully.

So you can sing..."Hari and Hara, You Took My Heart Away"

Today let's take a look at the ancestor of almost all scripts of the Indian languages be it North Indian or South Indian.
The Brahmi script is the ancestor of almost all written scripts in India including the Devanagari script.
In Devanagari we write the word Boy as बालकः(bAlakaH) and the pic attached above is how its written in Brahmi.

Any guess what is written in the above image?
Well its the word बालकः(bAlakAH) meaning  a boy in Sanskrit.

The script used in the image is called Grantham Lipi and it was also used to write Sanskrit in the past and is older than the current Devanagari script and many Agama Shastra texts were written in Grantham script.

Its an interesting script though not much in use these days but worth knowing to increase one's knowledge of ancient scripts.

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What is the meaning of the word Agama (आगम)?
Fellow Malaysians! We are so used to this word to denote Religion.
Now let's take a look of the actual meaning of the word Agama.
There is shloka that gives the definition of the word Agama.


आगतं शिव वक्त्रेभ्यः गतं च गिरिजा  मुखे |
मतं च शिव भक्तानां आगमं चेति कथ्यते ||


AgataM shiva vaktrebhyaH gataM ca girijA

mukhe
mataM ca shiva bhaktAnAM AgamaM ceti kathyate

Translation:
The Agama originated from the faces of Shiva and fell on the countenance of Girija(Parvati) and spread in the world as the mata(religion/school of thought) of the Shiva bhaktas.

The word Agama is made up from the the 1st syllable of the following words:
A आ  from आगतम्( Agatam) 
ga ग  fromगतम्  (gatam)
ma गतम्  from मतम् (matam) 

meaning of आगतम्( Agatam) = originated from/to come from
meaning of गतम्  (gatam) =went to, in the above shloka it means it fell on
meaning of मतम् (matam) = school of thought/religion

Let's take a look at what the Buddhanusmriti has to say about the alphabet अ

Let's do some calculations today.
Take a look at the image जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ
How many syllable(aksharANi) and counts(mAtra) does it have?
Let's count!

ज ग तः पि त रौ व न्दे पा र्व ती प र मे श्व रौ =16 aksharANi

U U _  U U _  _  _  _  U  _ U U _ U _
ज ग तः पि त रौ व न्दे पा र्व ती प र मे श्व रौ 

U is a Laghu which is a One matra.
_is a Guru which is Two matra.

There are 8 U and 8 _ in the above stanza.

U=1
_ = 2

8(U) +8( _ )
=8(1) +8(2)
=8+16 =24
जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ has 24 mAtrAH

Varna Chandas.

लघु(laghu) and गुरु(guru) are the terms used for syllables in prosody.

1)All short vowels and gunitaksharas having short vowels are termed लघु(laghu) and denoted with a U shape.

2)

a)All long vowels and gunitaksharas having long vowels are regarded as गुरु(guru) and denoted with a --- shape

b) Syllables followed by anusvara and visarga are considered guru too.

c)A syllable followed by consonant sans a vowel(with a virama) or a conjunct consonant is also considered a guru.

The pic attached shows how to write the laghu and guru.

Meaning of लघु(laghu) is light and गुरु(guru) is heavy.

काकाक्षिन्यायः(kAkAkSinyAyaH)
The maxim of the crow's eye ball.

An interesting fact about Karna.

तन्तुजाला(tantujAlA)
Cobweb

बिडाला आसन्दे निद्राति(biDAlA Asande nidrAti)
The cat sleeps on the chair.

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In Sanskrit there are many words to denote Family.
The most commonly used are परिवार(parivAr) and कुतुम्बक(kutumbaka).

Now let's get closer to home fellow Malaysians!
Let's take the Malay word Keluarga.
Keluarga as we know means Family.

Is Keluarga a Sanskrit word?
Well, its not a word used in Sanskrit for Family BUT its made up of two Sanskrit words that give the meaning of Family.

Let's dissect the word.
Keluarga is made up of कुल(kula) and वर्ग(varga)
कुल(kula) means clan
वर्ग(varga) means group

So कुलवर्ग(kulavarga) means a group of clansmen.

Betul tak? Betul kan...maksud keluarga dalam Bahasa Melayu pun sama juga!